I miss Matrox cards. I don't know what kind of cards can go in a Dell R620, but (as mentioned) it's a 1U chassis and that might limit the kind of cards you can put in it. I can see it has a PCI slot, but I can't see if it has a PCI-E slot. That will severely limit the kind of cards you can put in there. If you want to do 3D graphics, you should probably get a machine that's dedicated to that. This server probably has other limitations that'll make that a pain, other than just the video card. You can probably build a half-decent 3D whatever workstation for fairly cheap. On Fri, 21 Feb 2014, Jon Schewe wrote: > I know there are a number of Linux sysadmins on this list and I'm trying to > decide if Dell is pulling my chain or not. I've got a Dell R620 server that > we need to do some 3D graphics on. > The onboard graphics card is a Matrox chipset that appears to have very poor > 3D performance under Linux. I asked Dell if I can get a graphics card in the > server that performs better for 3D graphics. Their response was "3rd party > video cards in servers don't support 3D and are only for dual monitor use at > standard VGA resolution". > Can anyone confirm that there's no solution that will provide better 3D > performance in such a machine? I find it hard to believe that the server > somehow disables the 3D support on the card. Although I don't know that much > about video cards and how they talk to the CPU. > > Thanks. > > Jon > > -- > http://mtu.net/~jpschewe > > >